caa a22 4500 386357714 CHVBK 20180307111901.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3168208 doi S0009640700067044 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3168208 Pearse M. T. Mr. Pearse is doctoral student in Regent's Park College, Oxford, England. Free Will, Dissent, and Henry Hart [Elektronische Daten] [M. T. Pearse] On 29 April 1538 a letter was sent from Archbishop Cranmer to Thomas Cromwell complaining about the indictment of five men of Smarden and Pluckley in Kent. They had been holding "unlawful assemblies” and, so Cranmer argued, were indicted "of none occasion or ground else, but for by cause they are accounted fauters [supporters] of the new doctrine, as they call it.” He pleaded that their indictments might be overturned, for "if the king's subjects within this realm which favour God's word, shall be unjustly vexed at sessions, it will be no marvel though much sedition be daily engendered within this realm.” In view of the imminent conservative turn that religious policy was about to take in England, a development that would bring down Cromwell in its wake, Cranmer's concern at the ability of Catholic-minded local officials to harass Protestants is not to be wondered at. Copyright © American Society of Church History 1989 Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 58/4(1989-12), 452-459 0009-6407 58:4<452 1989 58 CHH https://doi.org/10.2307/3168208 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3168208 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pearse M. T. Mr. Pearse is doctoral student in Regent's Park College, Oxford, England NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 58/4(1989-12), 452-459 0009-6407 58:4<452 1989 58 CHH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge